African-American/African Literature and Literary Criticism

Indexes to Literary Criticism (Print and Electronic)

• MLA Bibliography
  ndexes scholarship on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Includes journal articles, monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats.

Biography and Bio-Bibliography

• African-American Authors, 1745-1945: Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook (Ref. PS 153.N5 A32 2000)
• African American Poets: Lives, Works, and Sources (Ref. PS 153.N5 P48 2002)

 
• African American Writers (Ref. PS 153.N5 A344 2001)
• Black Writers: a Selection of Sketches from Contemporary Authors (Ref. PS 153.N5 B56 1989)
• Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature (Ref. PS 153.N5 C59 2001)

 
• Contemporary African American Novelists: a Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook (Ref. PS 374.N4 C658 1999)

 
• Contemporary Authors (Ref. PN 451.C66 and Ref. PN 451.C67)

 
• The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: 100 Black women writers, 1900-1950 (Ref. PS 153.N5 R65 1989)
• Langston Hughes Encyclopedia (Main PS 3515.U274 Z459 2002)
• Masterpieces of African-American Literature (Ref. PS 153 N5 M264 1992)
• Oxford Companion to African American Literature (Ref. PS 153.N5 O96 1997)

 
• Toni Morrison Encyclopedia (Main PS 3563.O8749 Z913 2003)

 
• Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color
  Website devoted to North American women writers of color from the Women's Studies Department, Univ. of Minnesota.
• Zora Neale Hurston Companion (Main PS 3515.U789 Z464 2002)

Electronic Texts

• African-American Literature: Writers, Projects, Works (Voice of the Shuttle)
• African-American Poetry (LION)
• African American Texts from the Electronic Text Center (Univ. of Virginia)
• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
• Black Drama
  Contains full-text of plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. It also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.

 
• Black Thought and Culture: African Americans to 1975
  Non-fiction published works of leading African Americans: monographs, essays, speeches, interviews, journal articles, letters, biographical essays by leading scholars and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.

 
• Twentieth-century African-American Poetry (LION)
• Zorah Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress

Library of Congress Subject Headings

• African American authors [dramatists, novelists, poets]
• African American women authors
• African American women poets
• African fiction (English)--Black authors
• African literature (English)--Black authors
• African literature--Black authors
• African poetry (French)--Black authors
• American drama [fiction, literature, poetry, prose literature]--African American authors
• Drama--Black authors
• English drama--Black authors
• Literature--Black authors
• Authors, Black
• Blacks in literature
• Caribbean fiction (English)--Black authors
• Women authors, Black
• Subdivisions: Autobiography, bibliography, bio-bibliography, biography, dictionaries, directories, history and criticism, indexes, periodicals.